The government may someday be able to read your mind

[Jenna]

Neuroscientists are actively developing technologies to create more effective lie detectors, to determine if people have been at a crime scene, or to predict who may be more likely to engage in violent crime.

As the accuracy and reliability of these experiments continue to improve, the temptation will be strong to use these techniques in counter-terrorism, in the courtroom, perhaps even at airports.

And if brain imaging for lie detection is shown to be reliable, intelligence agencies may want to use it to discover moles, employers may want to use it to screen employees, schools to uncover vandals or cheaters.

More here: My Take: Keep government out of mind-reading business – CNN Belief Blog - CNN.com Blogs

[IndianaFuzz]

Better lie detectors? I can buy that. Predicting who is "likely to commit" violent crimes? Have you seen the movie "Minority Report"?

[Xiphos]

Better lie detectors? I can buy that. Predicting who is "likely to commit" violent crimes? Have you seen the movie "Minority Report"?

I had the same thought. Just because someone may have certain proclivities toward criminal behavior doesn't mean they don't have the self control not to. None of us have wanted to choke the shit out of someone after a pursuit?

Who hasn't walked in a bank and looked at the cameras and wondered if you could rob it? Of course you don't, it's just imaginative mischief. So the bank installs alarms that read your mind and you get charged for something you never actually would have done?

[JLK]

"predict who may be more likely to engage in violent crime."

when i do that the liberals call it profiling

i call it good policing